I’ve been looking at websites and there’s an area that’s not covered, perhaps I missed it.
First off it’s not where Herald of Flame is, but it does have a river of acid bath that you must pass through to get there. You get a break to the right where manticores are hanging out, but if you go further there’s a locked gate. I died as soon as I got there so I didn’t catch a name, but anyone know what I speak of?
That area gets unlocked when you reach honored with the black legion, at which point they give you a quest and the gate becomes unlocked.
Make sure you have aether resist potions, aether res and some sort of healing skill bedsides health potions. its not the hardest area but it can be a pain if you don’t have these things.
Good God, thank you.
By the way, does aether resistance actually help against the aetherburningriver of death areas?
You’re welcome
I could be wrong here, but i believe it does
Unfortunately no. They don’t do aether damage. The only thing that helps is damage absorbtion.
Hum, i could have sworn that aether res helped in those areas, given that i always use a aether pot before going into those spots. The first few times i tried those areas without those aether pots i got f’ed up lol.
Ohh well, like i said i could be wrong. 
Just confirming they are not aether damage. That shit is so tilting :rolleyes:
Ohh damn. i feel retarded, i mean 1200 hours in game and aether fields do not deal aether damage? unless im misunderstanding something here.
They don’t. They do some %HP based attack, but it’s not vitality, because vitality resist apparently doesn’t mitigate it either. The only upside is that it’s not more dangerous to low life characters.
Beefed up health regen may be of use as well.
I’m gonna have to look for 100% damage absorption gear.
Yup it’s % HP based. As I recall these stupid tilting patches are their own unique thing, they cannot be resist by any std resist, life leech resist, etc the only option is damage absorption. I may be wrong on that and they’re life leech damage, but I researched this once and pretty sure I’m right on this Aether clusters are your friend if you are too noob to get through it without one 
Search the forum can definitely find the answer
Well that’s nice to know, I’m surprised with all the time i spend in game and on the forums that i haven’t noticed that till now. I mean i haven’t had issues with those areas for a long time now anyways, once you learn the layouts they are easy to get through. I guess i wasted a bunch of those res pots lol, oh well those are easy to obtain.